outlook express does not support addons, iirc there are some tools doing a "proxy" for pop3 connections

Outlook Express email scanning with Clamwin

tayphud

Joined: 15 Aug 2012

Posts: 1

Location: East coast New York Central

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:36 am

I have Outlook Express on my Winxp S/p3 computer. Is there a way to have Clamwin scan my email from there?

Thanks!

Johnny

GuitarBob

Joined: 09 Jul 2006

Posts: 4316

Location: USA

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:27 pm

The official ClamWin email scan is from Outlook--it is not set up for Outlook Express. There may be some other projects that have a plugin for Outlook Express for ClamWin. You can scan Outlook Express folders manually with ClamWin. Another option is to get the Clam Sentinel program (a separate project), which allows you to scan in real-time with ClamWin, so Sentinel will automatically scan your Outlook mail when it is put on your computer. Clam Sentinel also has its own heuristic scanner that can detect malware for which there is no ClamWin signature. The Sentinel site is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/ on the web.

Regards,

clamboy

Joined: 20 Aug 2012

Posts: 1

Location: San Jose

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:36 am

is there any difference between Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express?i thought they were the same thing.

GuitarBob

Joined: 09 Jul 2006

Posts: 4316

Location: USA

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:46 pm

Express is sort of a stripped-down Outlook for home users, as Outlook was originally designed for business use. Microsoft does not officially support Express any more.